Designs for Ornamental Motifs and for a Herm Supporting a Chimney Piece
Moncalvo (Guglielmo Caccia)
1568–1625
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk
Dimensions
12 x 8 1/2in. (30.5 x 21.6cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.123.2
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Ornament
About the Artist
Moncalvo (Guglielmo Caccia) · 1568–1625
Guglielmo Caccia (1568–1625), known as Il Moncalvo after the Piedmontese town where he worked, stands as the most important exponent of Counter-Reformation art in Piedmont. Born on May 9, 1568, in Montabone near Acqui, Caccia earned the epithet 'the Raphael of Monferrato' for his elegant sacred paintings that successfully translated Counter-Reformation spiritual ideals into visual form. Working p...